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To: uu who wrote (13227)	2/25/1997 7:04:00 PM
From: Eric Prigge	of 18024

Addi, I've been wondering about this too. The standardization committe (the ITU) must weigh the business implications as well as the technological merits of the two standards in making their decision. The standards being equal, performance wise, I suspect they will be tempted to go with the ROK standard (56K FLEX) unless ROK has comparitively very few modems out by that time. Reason: if they go with X2, ROK and ROK chipset consumers will be screwed (they can't upgrade) whereas if they go with 56K FLEX, X2 consumers can * upgrade. I hope I am wrong. I'm hoping that very few consumers will be willing to buy first generation 56K FLEX products (since they aren't upgradeable) but we'll see. I also can't beleive too many ISPs would be willing to tie themselves to obsoleteable hardware but maybe the server side products are easier to upgrade. Eric * I think.

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